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HENRY RUPPEL, OF OLEVELANIQ, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DANGLER STOVE AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

VAPOR-GENERATING DEVICE FOR VAPOR-BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent- N 0. 461,850, dated October 27, 1891. Application filed December 4, 1889. Serial No. 332,610. (No model.

To 60% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY RUPPEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and Improved Vapor-Generating Device for Vapor-Burners; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and complete description thereof.

to My improvement relates to the main or generating burners, which not only generate vapor for themselves, but also supply supplementary burners with vapor, which may be used in connection therewith, arranged upon one and the same stove-frame.

The invention consists in the construction 7 and arrangement of certain parts or devices which render the operation of the supple mentary burners independent of that of the main burnerthat is, while said main burner can generate vapor for all burners its opera tion is not essential for the use of the supplementary burners, in so far as by the means constituting this invention vapor can be di- 2 5 rectly generated for said burners without the aid of the main burner.

The object of this improvement is to reduce the consumption of fuel for the generation of vapor when the main burner is notin 3o operation, and to render the means for accomplishing this simple for manipulation and reliable in operation.

That the invention may be fully seen and understood, reference will be had to the fol- 3 5 lowing specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of a vaporburnerprovided with the improvements above referred to. Fig. 2 is an underside view of the same. Fig. 3 is a partial front side view and a partial section of said burner. Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 3, a detached part of said burner. Fig. 5 is a plan of a detached part of said burner. Fig. 6 is a rear side view of the 5 same, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the vapor-induction tube.

Like letters of reference denote like parts in the drawings and specification.

For illustration, the improvement is shown Rd in connection with a burner having two pipes with needle-valves secured at opposite sides to its heating-plate and in open relation with the generating-chamber thereof. However, the number of said pipes with needle-valves may be more or. less, and in all instances the improvement may be applied with like results. The stove-frame, to which the burner or burners are applied, is not shown; but it may be of any suitable construction.

In all the figures,A represents the heatingplate, B the vapor-induction tube, and C the burner-cap. The generating-port is formed at the outer and under side of said plate, as seen at a. The nipple 72 receives the standpipe D,-Fig. 1, whereas the nipples c and d serve as means for a connect-ion of the pipes E and F, Figs. 3 and 4. The pipe G, which leads to the plug-valve H, is preferably an in tegral part of the plate A. The needle-valve I, which is threaded in the pipe J, controls the flow of gasoline to the combustion-chamber, as hereinafter set forth.

As seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the tube B is held suspended about midway upon the plate A, and has at its lower and rear side a slot e and lugs f for attachment of a diverter-via, Kas seen in.Figs. 1 and 3. Saiddiverter consists of a tube and grooved wings combined. A lip 9 extends from its upper extremity and an arm h from its lower one. By means of the pin i said lip is retained in hinged connection with the-lugs ff, while the lever L at the outer end of the valve I is employed for shifting the tubular part j of said diverter in and out of the path of the vapor issuing from the orifice of the needle-valve I, (the exterior of the partj coincides with the form of the tube 13,) so that when the lever L is turned from a position as shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 4 the tube B will then be free from interior obstruction, in which position the lever L is to be set when and while this main burner is in operation. If the side burners only are to be used, the diverter K is then set, as shown in Fig. 2, by turning the lever in direction of the arrow, the slotted curved arm 70 of said lever inducing the displacement of the arm h forward and backward, as may be desired, and thereby swinging the tubular part j in and out between the slot 6.

The interior of the rear side of the diverter K is in open relation with the grooved wings I at either side thereof, as seen in Figs. 1 and 6, and it isby this contrivance that the vapor, which is diverted into the channel on and ignited on issuing from the wings Z, strikes a large portion of the generating-port a to carry on the generation of vapor for the side burners,

, of which, however, only the needle-valves M and N are shown. The lever L, being in secure connection with the valve I, (when set as shown in Figs. 1 and 2,) partially closes orreduces the orifice of the latter,so that onlya smalljet for the generation of vapor can issue or be consumed. The arm n and the projection ato determine the sweep of thelever L by coming in contact with the stand-pipe D. Undue strains uponth'e arm are th usprevented,andthe extent of movement of the valve is properly limited for the main burner, as well as for the reserve generating device.

A gasoline-stove of which the main burner is provided with a contrivance as above cited can,withasmall expenditure of fuel, be kept in ready condition for usage, thus dispensing, with the tediousmanipulation of the initial lighting of the stove and respectively the heating of the burner.

By the means above described the needlevalve is opened and the induction-tube cleared from any obstruction when the arm. h of the diverter K assumes about a position as indid'icated by the line 13, Fig. 1,and the conjoint double. function-namely, that of reducing or increasing the needle-valve orifice and shifting. the. diverter Kis simultaneously available: by simply turning the lever L to one side or the other. As long as either the burner or the reserve generating device is in Opera tion the vapor issuing from one will be ignited by the burning jets of the other.

By the means above described a ready interchange for the generation of vapor can be obtained.

In Fig. 2 the pipes E E and the drip-cup P are omitted for the purpose of an unobstructed View of the parts, as shown in said figure.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a vapor-burner, the induction-pipe provided with a tubular diverter having hinged connection with said induction-pipe and an angular arm depending therefrom, in combination with a lever having an elongated slot therein and secured to the needle-valve of the main branch for operating the tubular diverter, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a vapor-burner, the described generating device consisting of a tubular vapordiverter and a slotted lever, said diverter having a pivotal connection with the induction-pipe of the burner and the lever in secure connection with the needle-valve and loosely so with the diverter by means of an angular depending arm entering the slot in said lever for simultaneous adjustment of said tubular diverter with the needle-valve by said lever, in the manner as and for the purpose set forth. 7

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence, of two witnesses.

HENRY RUPPEL. Witnesses;

A. E. GILBERT, B. F. EIBLER. 

